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Silicon Valley has made top data-science talent too expensive for many hedge...
Hedge funds have always been able to recruit analysts and traditional stock-picking portfolio managers from investment banks but have run into trouble persuading coders and data scientists to choose...
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The 25 richest people in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has long been a hotbed for tech start-ups. The valley includes Bay Area cities such as San Jose and Palo Alto.According to Forbes real-time billionaire data, the richest 25 people in...
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I finally read 'Sapiens,' the book that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both...
Go to any Silicon Valley party, and chance are pretty good you'll hear someone talking about "Sapiens," a book about the past and future of humanity by Yuval Noah Harari. Harari's "Sapiens" was first...
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A Silicon Valley software engineer says there's an easy way to determine...
Wealth is elusive in Silicon Valley, and one software engineer told Mercury News how he determines whether someone is wealthy: Do they have to work to live?Despite earning a combined annual income of...
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A Jeff Bezos-backed startup just inked a deal with $84 billion biotech Gilead...
The pharmaceutical giant Gilead is teaming up with Insitro, a Silicon Valley startup, to develop better drugs for an emerging disease called NASH.Short for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, NASH can lead...
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E-cig company Juul is considering creating a digital health tool for smokers...
Juul is the most popular e-cigarette in America and the company is partially owned by Altria, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes.Juul is on a quest to show that its sleek devices can help...
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An investment advisor says $10 million can buy a comfortable life in Silicon...
Financial experts told Mercury News that some families need up to a $10 million net worth to be financially comfortable living in Silicon Valley.Bay Area residents themselves say it takes a $4.2...
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Parents say a learning app backed by Mark Zuckerberg is giving kids anxiety...
Parents in Kansas say the Mark Zuckerberg-funded education platform Summit Learning caused physical and emotional ailments to children due to excessive screen time, The New York Times reports. Parents...
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Meet Craig 'Craigslist' Newmark, the self-professed 'nerd' who built a $1...
Craig Newmark is the founder of classified ads website Craigslist. Newmark started the site as an email newsletter called "San Francisco Events."Newmark only led the company for five years — he stepped...
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A Silicon Valley VC in the hottest area of healthcare explains what's driving...
Researchers at Rock Health, a Silicon Valley-based venture-capital firm dedicated to the hottest area of healthcare — digital health — say interest in mental-health startups is starting to pick up.The...
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Online learning startup Coursera is now worth more than $1 billion
Coursera, an online platform that offers university and technical classes, announced Thursday it raised $103 million in Series E funding that valued the company "well north" of $1 billion, according to...
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This map showing the fastest and slowest internet speeds in the US could...
With an average internet speed of 65.02 Mbps, Maryland has the best environment for multi-person streaming and gaming.This map by HighSpeedInternet.com shows the states with the fastest and slowest...
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This VC is working with Stanford on a new $30 million AI fund. Here's why...
Earlier this week, Motus Ventures announced the Motus Smart World Innovation Fund, a $30 million fund in partnership with Stanford's Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities Program.In a conversation...
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As Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook and Juul push into healthcare,...
As Silicon Valley tech companies increasingly push into the realm of healthcare, outside experts and clinicians are raising red flags.In the cases of suicide prevention, genetic testing, and...
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'Like chickens laying eggs in factories': The CEO of a hot European startup...
Adrien Nussenbaum is a cofounder of Mirakl, a French software-services startup that raised $70 million in February.He has strong views on Silicon Valley culture, which he says treats workers "like...
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E-cig company Juul is diving further into health with an app geared toward...
Juul makes the most popular e-cigarette in America. The company has also been tied to a controversy around youth vaping.Eager to show that its sleek devices can help adult smokers, Juul is increasingly...
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Facebook's effort to stop suicides by monitoring your posts reveals a...
Facebook has a suicide-monitoring tool that uses machine learning to identify posts that may indicate someone is at risk of killing themselves.The tool was involved in sending emergency responders to...
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Silicon Valley startup uBiome raised $105 million on the promise of exploring...
In April, the FBI raided the offices of the microbiome-testing startup uBiome, reportedly as part of an investigation into questionable billing practices.On the heels of the raid, uBiome placed co-CEOs...
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Uber just went public. Here's what 12 of its earliest employees are doing...
10 years after Uber began as a tiny startup called UberCar, it's going public in one of the biggest IPOs ever.Some of Uber's earliest employees, such as former CEO Travis Kalanick and cofounder Oscar...
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A Silicon Valley stock exchange backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz...
A new stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists just gained approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Long-Term Stock Exchange is a new stock exchange designed to...
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